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Final Words
Final Words
Welcome I am so glad you joined us tonight.
Tonight we pause and reflect on the greatest act of love this world has ever and will ever see.
Please turn in your Bibles to John 18
As you are doing that let me ask:
Have you ever thought ever started a journey and ended up somewhere you never new you were headed to in thr first place.
This used to stress me out when we plan on taking trips.
I know I am aging my self, but I remeber the days of the trip ticket.
You would go to AAA and tell them where you wer going and they would make you a map.
You would go form page to page to get to your destination.
It was the non-verbal GPS.
We were driving to Colorado for a new Duty Station and we ended up driving through the Ozarks to get to Tulsa as one of our stops.
I didn't know I was going to drive through mountains and I dint know they were notorious for fog.
It was late, I had 2 little girls asleep in the back and their mom asleep in the front while I was driving about 5 mph.
I had no idea this was coming or wehre we were.
Eventually the fog cleared and we survived, if you were concerned but that was a scary night.
I imagine that is what the disciples and followers of Christ felt when He was betrayed and tried.
They were sure this was it. Jesus would take His throne as Messiah, kick out the Romans, restore Israel.
Instead they are leading Him to a cross.
THe most amazing thing is that Jesus knew exactly what was happening, He knew this was the destination, this was the fog and road through which He chose to travel.
What came as a shock for everyone else, was planned and set in motion the moment you and I turned our backs on God.
He knew the cost and went anyway. Through it all, the excruciating pain and humiliation, He kept His heart on us.
We see it through his final words, and that is what we are going to dive into tonight.
If you would plaes stand with me as we read the most important words you will hear tonight.
33 So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” 34 Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”
35 Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”
36 Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”
37 Then Pilate said to him, “So you are a king?” Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. For this purpose I was born and for this purpose I have come into the world—to bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth listens to my voice.” 38 Pilate said to him, “What is truth?” After he had said this, he went back outside to the Jews and told them, “I find no guilt in him.
39 But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?” 40 They cried out again, “Not this man, but Barabbas!” Now Barabbas was a robber.
1 Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. 2 And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.
3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands. 4 Pilate went out again and said to them, “See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him.”
5 So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Behold the man!” 6 When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, “Crucify him, crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him.”
7 The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God.” 8 When Pilate heard this statement, he was even more afraid.
9 He entered his headquarters again and said to Jesus, “Where are you from?” But Jesus gave him no answer. 10 So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”
11 Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at all unless it had been given you from above. Therefore he who delivered me over to you has the greater sin.”
Let’s pray.
Final Words
Final Words
Up to this point, Jesus had been betrayed by someone in his inner circle.
He had been denied by one of his closest followers and the one He had made a leader.
He was lied about and falsely accused by people who could not ge their stories straight.
He was mocked and beaten by the religious leaders who should of known who He was.
He was given a mock illegal trial that was fixed.
Tried in front of a foreign leader who had no idea.
Beaten and whipped beyond recognition and heard the voices that were cheering His entrance in Jerusalem now crying out “Crucify Him”
Now they are sending Him out to be crucified carrying His Cross.
16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus, 17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
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Final Words
Through all this, Jesus did not defend Himself or argue.
Very few words, but what he did say was beyond what any of us could imagine.
Jesus made 7 statements on the cross that can be broken down this way:
On the cross, He thought of others.
34 And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.
On the cross, He thought of others.
Can you imagine the compassion?
All the those who betrayed, denied, lied, mocked, beaten,
“Father forgive them…”
On the cross, He ministered to others.
39 One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, “Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!” 40 But the other rebuked him, saying, “Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41 And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.” 42 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” 43 And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
On the cross, He ministered to others.
In the midst of the pain he offered grace and hope.
The same message He had preached the last 3 years, not even Roman soldiers, jeering crowds, and nails in His hands and feet could keep Him from reaching out to the hurting and lost.
On the cross, He comforted others.
25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son!” 27 Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
On the cross, He comforted others.
The one who needed the most comfort saw His mother and friend and instead comforted them.
Basically you are gaining a son and a Savior.
On the cross, He experienced isolation.
45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour. 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
On the cross, He experienced isolation.
Darkness not only covered the land but His soul as well.
At that moment and for the next 3 hours all the weight of all the sin was on Him.
In those 3 hours was compressed the hell which we deserved and the wrath of God against all our transgressions.
For the first time in all of eternity the son and father were separated.
The nails and beatings didn’t kill Jesus - our sin did.
On the cross, He accomplished all that needed to be accomplished.
28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.
On the cross, He accomplished all that needed to be accomplished.
He had given all and all was taken
15 my strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death.
On the cross, He accomplished all that needed to be accomplished.
There was nothing left to give and nothing more was needed.
On the cross, He paid our debt in full.
30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
On the cross, He paid our debt in full.
Tae-ta-les-toi - is what Jesus said
It is a banking term
When someone was in debtors prison and had paid off their debt they were given a paper with that on it - Paid in Full.
And when it was done, that is when He died.
Final Words
Final Words
“Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ’s wounds are your healings, His agonies your repose, His conflicts your conquests, His groans your songs, His pains your ease, His shame your glory, His death your life, His sufferings your salvation.” Matthew Henry
Final Words
Final Words
If you ever doubt God’s love - look at the cross and hear Him say Paid in Full.
If you ever think you are to far gone - look at the cross and hear Him say Paid in full
Every sin, every thing I have done wrong, Paid in Full
Nailed on that cross and Paid in full
Let’s pray.
